May 30th - Nailah's Apartment - Burn all the letters

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:07 pm

Samantha was in Nailah's apartment, having finally given in to the temptation to read the labyrinthine twists of her girlfriend's... er... dream journal.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:22 pm

A lot of it is, unsurprisingly vague and uninformative, especially at the beginning, the first pages dating back all the way to 2007. There is a lot of scribbling next to the actual texts and sketches, a lot of which has been crossed out and (possibly) corrected by a more 'mature' hand-writing. Still, the first pages are filled with a lot of existential angst. The visions and interpretations slowly get a little clearer further in, though if Nailah's interpretations are correct most of them already happened or concern somewhat trivial things. Every once in a while political or global happenings show up, but with very few comments. Either out of lacking interest or on purpose. And eventually there is, of course, the page Sam already knows, predicting their meeting and relationship.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:26 pm

"Aye, can certainly believe someone who wore that much eyeliner wrote this," Samantha murmured with a chuckle as she continued to read.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:35 pm

Most of it is more of the same, albeit less and less pessimistic and gloomy over the years. One page stands out because it is almost entirely black from the almost frantic-looking sketching on it. Only the middle remains somewhat clear, depicting a vague figure surrounded by the darkness. On the page next to it Nailah wrote down something that almost reads more like an actual diary-entry than her usual prophecies. It's dated at late 2016.

"A thick, black cloud swirled before my eyes, and my mind told me that in this cloud, unseen as yet, but about to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably wicked in the universe. Vague shapes swirled and swam amid the dark cloud-bank, each a menace and a warning of something coming, the advent of some unspeakable dweller upon the threshold, whose very shadow would blast my soul."

There are few comments beyond her usual noting of the prominent theme and feel of the vision, though there seems to be a more recent addition that Nailah for some reason put on the same page.

"I saw her today at the reception
In her glass was a bleeding man
She was practiced at the art of deception
I could tell by her blood-stained hands"

Next to it is a scribbled "Dweller?" circled a few times with an arrow pointing towards the page with the sketch on it.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:41 pm

"...curious choice of accompaniment," she muttered, feeling the socialite described in the song a bit of a contrast.

by **Narrator** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:46 pm

The 'addition' is marked March 12th 2022.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:49 pm

Samantha frowned. "...though that fits."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:56 pm

"Finally given in, have you?" Nailah chuckles as she steps out of the bedroom, getting ready having taken her a while, mostly due to the shower involved.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 3:57 pm

"Something to pass the time, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:01 pm

"Though it's probably a little too abstract for the coffee table. You didn't happen to skip the first twenty pages or so?" she asks hopefully.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:06 pm

"Why would I want to miss the prologue?" She asked teasingly.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:07 pm

"I'd say because it was written by a teenager. You should know, you met her." she chuckles.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:10 pm

"Aye, and you had the pleasure in reverse."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:11 pm

"Let's not have a contest over who was worse. We both know who would win that one."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:13 pm

"The sphinx is bearing her cross, and I'm the one who's Catholic."

"I was more interested in a recent addition, though."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:15 pm

"I'm just painfully aware of where I'm coming from, thanks to that episode." she shakes her head at her younger self.

"What addition do you mean? I go over the old ones every once in a while, though it's been a while since the last time."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:17 pm

"This one was revised after the... ah... fever dream you had."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:19 pm

"There were a couple that I remember. With... varying degrees of clarity."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:21 pm

"I visited you mentally during this one, I think. Well, a portion of me did."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:22 pm

Fixing her hair Nailah steps closer to look over Sam's shoulder.

"Oh."

"That one..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:24 pm

"Aye. Rather an odd one, wasn't it?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:26 pm

"It was a rather unusual one, yes. But considering the circumstances..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:27 pm

She nodded.

"I didn't quite realize she wasn't you at first. Then again, she was in a way. You blurred together."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:29 pm

"Honestly, I mostly just remember it from what you showed me."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:33 pm

"Aye. What made you connect it with this?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:39 pm

"Just a hunch... They often are accompanied by feelings and impressions that are hard to put down into words or images."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:41 pm

"And would you say that dream was her shadow?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:44 pm

"Maybe... There were other shapes and shadows but one seemed to stand out. There was something there..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:53 pm

"I honestly wasn't quite sure what to make of her."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:59 pm

Nailah just shrugs a bit helplessly. "All I know is that it felt uncomfortable yet familiar somehow. Not quite threatening, but..." she trails off.

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:03 pm

"Aye. I certainly didn't feel any malice towards me."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:08 pm

"If that is even her." she says, pointing at the drawing. "It just felt... wrong in an uncomfortably close way."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:12 pm

"Think of it as musical dissonance. When two notes are just a bit off, there's vibration."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:18 pm

"I don't know. Maybe. It certainly shook me..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:21 pm

"When so much was similar, the differences would be painful, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:25 pm

"I suppose... Though that doesn't really answer anything."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:26 pm

"Other than why it felt so fundamentally wrong."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:40 pm

She nods.

"I haven't thought about it much, to be honest, even after that fever dream. Especially since you seemed a bit worried about all of that back then..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:46 pm

"Aye. Kind of go back and forth, I suppose. I certainly wasn't feeling good when I saw you'd made a correlation."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:58 pm

"For all we know it could be a future already averted. A glimpse of what might have happened if... she would have had her way." she says, hesitating to use Melpomene's name.

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